At the end of June and the beginning of July every year, it is one of the hottest schedules in the North American film market, four or five years ago, there were often several first-line productions during this period, but in recent years, Matthew's films have completely dominated the Independence Day schedule, resulting in this time period gradually having the nickname of "Matthew Horner schedule", most of the first-line productions will avoid the weekend before Independence Day, even if they want to take advantage of this schedule, they are often released in advance or postponed by a week.

Of course, films released in the same schedule may not fail, for example, the "Ice Age" series was released on the same Independence Day schedule as Matthew's film, and the final box office results were quite good.

During this year's Independence Day schedule, the film market has been flooded with two first-line productions, one of which is naturally "Special Forces 2: Total Strike Back" starring Matthew, and the other is the Spider-Man movie "The Amazing Spider-Man" rebooted by Sony Columbia.

However, "Special Forces 2" was released on June 29, while "The Amazing Spider-Man", despite the halo effect of Peter Parker, was released on July 3 in order to avoid Matthew's edge.

At the end of June, Hasbro and Paramount Pictures hosted a grand premiere of "Special Forces 2" in Los Angeles.

Matthew and the rest of the main creative staff also appeared at the premiere.

Although the quarrel with Hasbro and Paramount Pictures is not very pleasant, Matthew will still work hard to complete his work.

However, he found at the premiere that Paramount Pictures' attitude towards him and Stephen Sommers had suddenly changed for the better.

Before the premiere, Paramount Pictures couldn't say anything bad about him, but it was more of a routine at work, which was markedly different from his work with Disney and Warner Bros., but when he met Paramount Pictures' CEO Brad Gray at the premiere, Matthew could sense the sincerity in the Paramount Pictures owner's attitude.

It seems that Paramount Pictures is particularly dependent on him.

From Matthew's point of view, this must be because of the huge benefits that Special Ops 2: Total Strike Back can bring.

The film, which features his character Duke as the protagonist, easily earned $51.5 million on its first day of release, squeezing "Teddy Bear," which opened the week before, into second place and becoming the box office champion of the day.

Although "Teddy Bear" has set a series of R-rated comedy records, the single-day harvest of $10.5 million is completely insufficient in the face of Matthew's golden signboard and huge market appeal forged over the years.

On Saturday, the second day of its release, "Special Forces 2" continued to maintain a very high attendance, earning $49.8 million in a single day, still occupying the first place in the single-day box office charts.

This weekend, "Special Forces 2" is the absolute hegemon of the North American film market.

Three days after its opening weekend, the film grossed $142.1 million in more than 4,300 theaters in North America, easily squeezing out "Teddy Bear's" $30.15 million to become the new North American box office leader.

At the same time, "Special Forces 2" was also released simultaneously in nearly 70 overseas countries and regions, winning more than 80% of the weekly box office champions, and the cumulative overseas box office in the first weekend almost exceeded the $200 million mark.

The film took just three days to fetch $338.56 million from around the world.

Whether in North America or around the world, "Special Forces 2" has dominated various box office charts.

However, the film's reputation is not particularly good, and it cannot be compared with Matthew's previous two films "Inception" and "Fast and Furious 5", and the score in all aspects is comparable to "The Rise of Cobra".

But that doesn't stop Special Forces 2 from being a great popcorn movie.

Countless facts in the past have also proved that pure popcorn movies are more accepted all over the world.

"It's not so much that this movie is a victory for Paramount Pictures......"

In the Hollywood area, in his office at Paramount Pictures' headquarters, Brad Gray, as CEO, told Lorenzo Bonaventura, "It's more like Matthew Horner's victory alone." ”

Lorenzo Bonaventura was dissatisfied with Matthew as early as during the filming, completely misunderstood what Brad Gray meant, and took the opportunity to say, "This film is $350 million in North America and $800 million in the world, and it is not a big problem for such a high box office, how much money will Matthew Horner's 20% box office share take? His personal income is almost equal to the profits of Paramount Pictures, and if this continues, more income from this series will only go into Matthew Horner's personal pocket." ”

Brad Gray frowned slightly and glanced at Lorenzo Bonaventura.

Lorenzo Bonaventura added, "Boss, I suggest again, replace Matthew Horner!" He also thought about Paramount Pictures' interests, "We can have the Duke character die at the beginning of the third part, and fix the flint of Channing Tatum." In this way, we can save more than half of our support in terms of actors' remuneration. ”

Brad Gray's brow furrowed even deeper and asked, "Have you considered the consequences of the replacement?"

"Huh?" Lorenzo Bonaventura was stunned, not understanding what his boss meant.

Brad Gray said lightly, "Channing Tatum's salary is really low, but have you thought about his appeal? Let me ask you, have you ever considered the main reason for the box office explosion of "Special Forces 2" in the first weekend?"

Without waiting for Lorenzo Bonaventura to speak, he took out a report, pushed it over, and said directly, "In the past three days, we have hired a number of research and consulting companies to conduct first-hand theater audience statistics throughout North America, and among the 35,000 answers recovered, the number of audiences who want to see Matthew Horner in the movie accounts for 88 percent, and the audience who bought tickets mainly because of Matthew Horner is close to 50%. “

Hearing these data, Lorenzo Bonaventura was momentarily speechless.

Brad Gray accentuated, "Even the most conservative estimates, half of the opening weekend box office in North America is directly related to Matthew Horner!"

He sighed suddenly, "I asked the market part to do a professional analysis, excluding Matthew Horner's appeal, "Special Forces 2" is also a film with a box office of 50 million to 60 million dollars in the opening weekend. ”

Lorenzo Bonaventura opened his mouth and ended up saying nothing, he can still complain when there are no stats, but the stats undoubtedly prove that Matthew Horner's salary is high, but the benefits he brings are just as objective.

It's just that...... Matthew Horner has taken too much from it, and with a high base salary and various shares, he may have to take hundreds of millions of dollars or more from the income of this film.

"I still think Matthew Horner is too paid. Lorenzo Bonaventura, a department head and one of the producers of "Special Forces 2," may not be standing high enough and keeping his eyes on the front, "I was overwhelmed by the thought of what he was going to take." ”

Brad Gray knew that Lorenzo Bonaventura was thinking about the company, so he didn't get angry and said, "I'm not feeling well either. He then said heavily, "But Paramount Pictures is going to continue working with Matthew Horner." ”

Lorenzo Bonaventura forced not to ask why, he was a close confidant of Brad Gray, and Brad Gray would certainly explain it to him.

"Paramount Pictures now needs Matthew Horner and needs the 'Special Ops' franchise to continue to succeed consistently. Brad Gray suddenly looked tired, rubbed the corners of his forehead, and said, "DreamWorks has decided to break up with Paramount Pictures, they are going to switch to Disney, and we have one less important partner." ”

Lorenzo Bonaventura said tentatively, "We have other partners, we have Tom Cruise. ”

This is a big hole card for Paramount Pictures.

Brad Gray asked rhetorically, "Do you think Tom Cruise can match Matthew Horner right now?"

"They're all superstars...... Lorenzo Bonaventura's tone was a little weak.

"Tom Cruise can't compare to Matthew Horner at all!" Brad Gray said very seriously, "In the last four or five years, except for the "Mission Impossible" series, has Tom Cruise achieved the same success as Matthew Horner in other films?

His eyes gradually became sharper, "The several films we invested in Tom Cruise are all able to recover their costs, and even have losses, so what does Tom Cruise do with Matthew Hornaby? Don't forget, the dominance of this series is in the hands of Tom Cruise, and we can only give him a hand." ”

Lorenzo Bonaventura could only nod.

Brad Gray added, "Paramount Pictures is going through a very difficult time, and we need Matthew Horner's cooperation, if not for anything else, this cooperation alone will ensure that Paramount Pictures has a stable stock price!"

"I understand. "Lorenzo Bonaventura knew she had to speak.

"You have to understand that. Brad Gray tapped, "Lorenzo, I don't care what you think of Matthew, I have to be like me, put all these opinions away, and face Matthew Horner with the most sincere attitude, so that he feels that Paramount Pictures is sincere and willing to sign a new contract with us to star in "Special Forces 3." ”

Lorenzo Bonaventura did not hesitate any longer and immediately said, "Yes!

Brad Gray waved his hand at Lorenzo Bonaventura, and when he left the office, he sighed, who wants to share so much of their company's profits with another person?

There's only one Matthew Horner in Hollywood today!

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